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. 2008 Nov;29(11):1012-8.
doi: 10.1086/593120.

Screening for MRSA: a flawed hospital infection control intervention

Richard P Wenzel  1 , Gonzalo Bearman, Michael B Edmond
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Screening for MRSA: a flawed hospital infection control intervention

Richard P Wenzel et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Nov.

Abstract

Focusing hospital resources on a single antibiotic-resistant pathogen as a sole approach to infection control is inherently flawed. We applied attributable mortality principles to a basic model of bloodstream infections to outline the argument. Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alone made sense in the 1980s, but the ongoing emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and antibiotic-resistant strains of gram-negative rods and Candida species, as well as the recognition of the value of team-based infection control programs, support a population-based approach.

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